An NYPD union is calling for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino movies after the director joined a police brutality protest through the streets of New York on Saturday. Flying in from California, he spoke out against the deaths of unarmed suspects at officers' hands.

"I'm a human being with a conscience," Tarantino said at the protest. "And if you believe there's murder going on, then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered. When I see murders, I do not stand by … I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers."

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The protest, organized by Rise Up October, came just days after the killing of NYPD officer Randolph Holder, and the unfortunate timing has drawn criticism from the largest New York police union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

"The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls 'murderers' aren't living in one of his depraved big screen fantasies—they're risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem," Lynch said.
"New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous 'cop fiction.'"

Tarantino's next film is The Hateful Eight, scheduled for release in December.